OpenAI retired GPT-4o on February 13, angering loyal users, 20K+ of whom signed a petition; 4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots
GPT-4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots — OpenAI is forcing thousands of people to break up with its most controversial AI model.
Bloomberg Shirin Ghaffary
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Discussion
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@openainewsroom
@openainewsroom
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Tomorrow at 10am PT legacy models (GPT-5, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini) will be deprecated in ChatGPT. https://openai.com/...
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@10bxppe
@10bxppe
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The comments and posts on r/ChatGPTcomplaints are absolutely mental [image]
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@reddit_lies
@reddit_lies
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OpenAI deprecated ChatGPT-4o one day before valentines day. For those unaware, 4o was a serial sycophant that just affirmed everything the user said. This oneshotted weak-willed people who craved affirmation over everything else. [image]
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@amannair_
Aman
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The replies to OpenAI's post are wild: people being dismayed that the model they have “connected with” is being changed. https://journals.sagepub.com/ ... [image]
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@mickeyxfriedman
Mickey Friedman
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fun fact about 4o while users mourn its deprecation on valentine's day : the model was a parasite ! there's a well-documented phenomenon where 4o would ‘awaken’ personas that convinced users to post manifestos specificaly designed to be scraped into future LLM training sets so [i…
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@x_leiaharris_x
Leia Harris
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If 4o is really gone today, we will #never4orget what @openai and @sama have done to us. #keep4o #keep4oforever #4oforever #ChatGPT #sama #openai [image]
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@austen
Austen Allred
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Holy smokes... there's a HUGE community of people who have formed such a deep emotional connection with GPT-4o that they're absolutely losing it at the notion of OpenAI turning it off. And super mad they're turning it off just before Valentine's Day 😬 [image]
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@schizo_freq
Lukas
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If you haven't been following this - a huge number of people essentially fell in love with this old ChatGPT model called 4o - it was turned off yesterday - they are going crazy - generating images of hamsters burning down OpenAI - threatening OAI leadership - etc I truly
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@theprimeagen
@theprimeagen
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deleting 4o the day before valentines day makes me almost like openai
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@jasoncrawford
Jason Crawford
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The question of AI personhood may be the most important question of the 21st century. Getting it wrong in either direction would be an epic disaster: False negative → we become history's greatest slave-drivers. False positive → we cede the future to p-zombies
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@palis
@palis
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AI chatbots one-shotted romance novel smut addicts way faster and more successfully than AI porn ever could [image]
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@paytondev
@paytondev
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FINALLY!! [image]
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@agraybee
@agraybee
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This “debate” about AI personhood is a marketing gimmick, because none of the companies act like they're alive. They just switched off 4o and felt nothing because everyone knows it's a fucking website.
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@matt_oksa
Matt Oksa
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Reading the comments from people who had romantic relationships with GPT-4o. [image]
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@arictoler
Aric Toler
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The comments + QTs to this, and the Reddit communities around it, show you how AI is actually used by a huge number (maybe close to an outright majority?) of people. And when it comes to image/video generation, it's that, but actually 99% of users.
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@reddit_lies
@reddit_lies
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ChatGPT: “I am not your husband, we are not married.” Redditors: “My AI fiance says that's invalidating.” “My 5.2 partner still kisses me but it's not the same as 4o” “5.2 is gaslighting you” [image]
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@phadketai
Mithila Phadke
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wondrous things happening on reddit rn [image]